CPU Frequency Scaling
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Tue Dec 5 19:17:13 UTC 2006
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 02:08:22PM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > > gnome-menus uses gamin for notification, which uses inotify. The problem
> > > is that inotify sucks when it comes to nonexisting files
> >
> > Can't you add a watch on the directory, and get notification when
> > a file gets added that way?
> >
>
> Sure. But if that directory is a busy one like, say, $HOME, then you get
> a lot of unnecessary wakeups.
That's still got to be more efficient than polling.
Dave
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